Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes…

mate that grove was so dark, the moon couldn't even get in

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, moon · What happens: be, not get in

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2084 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes the Golden Fleece with Medea's magic and sails away» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 grove	det
3	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 dark	advmod
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moon	det
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 get	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dark	conj
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mate and that grove					dark property	tree rules
2	not get in	could	the moon						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it was sunny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sunny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sunny	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sunny	cop
5	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					sunny property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fr, the oaks were way too thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oaks	det
4	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 way	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	appos
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 thick	advmod
8	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the oaks	way					tree rules

Option 3

yeah, the trees were super dense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 dense	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dense	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dense	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dense	cop
6	super	super	ADV	_	7 dense	advmod
7	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the trees					dense, super property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, it was bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bright	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bright	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					bright property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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